, 1887-06-19

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So the commissioner called on him to assure
him that all was well, mud his convalescence
became speedy.
w couldn't duplicate Jack tho world
over" Superintendent Jackson said the other
day. a don't think no knows what fear Is.
his only fault is that about once q year he
will get on q spree, but during such spells he
was never known to resort to knives and pis-
tolls. Drunk or sober lis weapons were Ill
ways his fists or q black thorn stick. Jack
is big hearted, gentle aud chiyalrous. He Is
always ready to take care Of girls, women
and babies. Shnrpers and roughs have q
wholesome respect for him, you may be sure.
he is not a boaster, either.
"One Monday morning some one told me
there had been q tremendous row at Jnck's
door the day previous, and l went to SEQ
about It. The sailors bother US a good deal
sometimes, you know. tWhnt have you been
doing / asked angrily, that a row was
kicked up bore yesterday
"'Oh, nothin' much Jack replied. Il only
bate a couple sailors TINT were botherin' the
girls"
Sir Alfred Gooch was much interested in
Capt Hussey about a year ago and asked the
Royal Humane society to give him a medal,
which was refused Oh the ground that the
brave fellow was not e British subject. abe
CORA" said Jack, "they wouldn't give me a
medal because I'm an Irishman. When the
next Britisher tumbles into tue say and bawls
for help I'll tell him to so to the Royal HUI
name society for 1t, / will
Capt, Hnssey has ten or q dozen medals
from American / situations. In 1874 con-
gress voted him a gold medal for bravery in
saving human beings from drowning. He is
80 years old, five feet eight inches high, and
weighs about 200 pounds. He has been nm
employe of Castle Garden for the past if
teen years, for which position be was recon-
mended by Hon. S. s.. Cox. In war times lie
WINS watchman of some cotton warehouses
near his present residence in Jackson street.
Cotton was extremely scarce and valuable,
and his encounters with thieves were nunier-
Gus. When arrested OH his occasional sprees
1t required a platoon of police to do 1t, as a
general thing, and his head is covered with
scars, the result of numerous af7rnys with
knights of the locust.
Jack invariably signs the pledge after a
debauch, and Superintendent Jackson says
no has mover known him to break it He OBJ.
ligates himself not to drink for q term OF
months or a year, and when the interval has
expired hc will "go on u tear" AT one time,
when reproached by the superintendent for
violating bis pledge, Jack went to the trouble
of securing the afldavit OF an unintercsted
party to prove that the time was not covered
with his previous promise.
At one time Capt. Hussey was q boat,nnn
on Lake Ontario and saved the life Of his
captains daughter, whom lie married. Mrs.
Hussey is said 10 have u strong influence over
her husbands turbulent nature. They have
two sons and a daughter. The husbands
title cnme from mention that was made Of
him in a song brought out by uarrigan and
Hart AT Castle Garden Capt. Hussey's most
dangerous though successful life saving OK
plot was the rescue OF n powerful Swede who
throw himself In the water with suicidal ill.,
tent, and who fought his rescuer vigorously.